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He thanked her and she smiled softly in return, not offering any words as she shifted to lay down next to him. “I know you did… you wouldn’t be you if you didn’t.” There was a hint of a playful tease. They were both worrywarts and they knew it. It was still completely insane to her just how perfect they seemed to fit together, as if he had simply been the part of herself that she had been missing, like a key to the locks that she had wrapped around her heart in defense.
 
Her eyes closed and she laid there, content but awake, until they slowly opened at the start of his statement, the hesitation causing her to nuzzle gently in encouragement… would she take his last name? She paused for a moment, hints of tears prickling at her eyes as she took a breath in and then slowly let it out, knowing the longer she paused the more apprehensive he would get but also wanting to be fully meaningful in her words. “I haven’t used my own in quite some time.” Her last name had been more of a curse than an identifier. She nuzzled once more at his neck. “I would love to. To have a last name that I can be proud of.” It was just another way to bind herself to him further, a thought that had once completely and utterly terrified her.
 
Now? Now it was just natural.